MELBOURNE, March 2.—In a reserved judgment the Full Court of the Arbitration Court to-day, made a reduction of 7½ per cent, in the wages of members of ...
Article : 516 wordsCANBERRA, March 2.—A decrease of nearly £10,000,000 in the Customs revenue for the eight months just ended is shown by figures made available by the ...
Article : 269 wordsCANBERRA, March 2.—Before any steps were taken to hold the ballot to choose the Cabinet at the meeting of the Federal Labour Caucus to-day, the ...
Article : 154 wordsLIMA (Peru), March 1.—The Provisional President of Peru (Lt. Colonel Sanchez Cerro) has resigned after his regime had been threatened by armed revolt for ...
Article : 125 wordsPARIS, March 1.—A tripartite Naval agreement has been achieved. The French Foreign Minister (M. Briand) and the British and Italian ambassadors met the ...
Article : 428 wordsRIGA, Mar. 1.—Simultaneously with the opening of the trial at Moscow of 14 Socialists who are charged with having plotted with foreigners to wreck the ...
Article : 215 wordsCANBERRA, March 2.—After a brief financial discussion, at the end of which the proposal for a fiduciary note issue of £18,000,000 was endorsed, the Federal ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,690 wordsORAN (Algeria), March 1.—The airmen Boussoutrot and Rossi lowered, to-day, the world's distance and duration records for a closed circuit flight, covering 5,262.9 miles ...
Article : 36 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—Addressing the Macquarie district assembly of the Australian Labour Party at Lithgow on Saturday. Mr. Chifley. M.H.R., Lab., ...
Article : 60 wordsThis morning at 9.30 o'clock, the new Vickers Viastra monoplane acquired by West Australian Airways, Ltd., for the Perth-Adelaide air service, will make its ...
Article : 274 wordsLONDON, March 2.—The Commonwealth of Australia repaid £5,000,000 in Treasury bills which were due to-day. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. Arthur D. Befesford (25), assayer, of Mt. Morgans, received a fractured skill and concussion of the brain when a tram car came into collision with a stationary ...
Article : 211 wordsBRISBANE, March 2.—The State financial returns for last month and the eight months ended on February 28. which were issued to-day, show that the revenue for ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—The New South Wales Treasury paid into the Commonwealth Bank to-day an amount to meet £100,000 interest due by New South ...
Article : 94 wordsThe state Arbitration Court yesterday heard a number of application by employers for part-time workings Decisions were reserved. The Court consisted of ...
Article : 830 wordsSYDNEY, March 1.—Archbishop Kelly, when speaking at the opening of the Stella Maris Convent, Long Bay, to-day, denounced repudiation. He said that, while ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—When giving reasons why the Railways Classification Board, in the interim award it issued on Friday last, refused the application by the ...
Article : 176 wordsROME, March 1.—The Franco-Italian compromise on naval limitation is a Species of naval truce or a slowing down of the rhythm of construction. The ...
Article : 103 wordsSo much has been said of late, concerning the burdening effect of the amended Workers' Compensation Act upon the industries of the State, that a comparison ...
Article : 1,058 wordsWhen he was riding his bicycle towards Fremantle, near the Leighton railway station yesterday morning, William Ward (49) of Monument-street, Cottesloe Beach, ...
Article : 73 wordsAt a meeting of the Citizens' Federation at 197 Murray-street, last night, Mr. Colin Unwin said that the federation stood for Governments which it ...
Article : 451 wordsSHANGHAI, March 2.—General Hu Han-Min, president of the Legislative Yuan (Council) has handed in his resignation, which has been accepted. It is ...
Article : 133 wordsErnest John Jeffrey (16), of South-street, South Belmont, was chopping wood at the side of the Kalamunda-road, early yesterday evening when the axe slipped, and ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" stated that last year's three-power pact has virtually become a five-power pact, which ...
Article : 102 wordsSUVA, March 2.—Another storm is passing over the Penang sugar district, north bf Suva, travelling south-east. The Suva River, which recently flooded, is ...
Article : 88 wordsWhen a motor cycle driven north in Haveclock-street yesterday by Harry J. Topal, of Central-avenue. Kalamunda, skilled at the corner of Wellington-street, ...
Article : 86 wordsThere has been, a marked revival of the music of the classics in Europe, according to Mr. Roy Shepherd, an Australian pianist, who reached Fremantle yesterday from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 365 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—The escape from custody of two men at Wangaratta was recalled at the General Sessions to-day, when Leonard Brown (33), slaughter. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe name of Albert Brimson, farm labourer, of Lower Chittering, who suffered a fractured jaw, fractured ribs and internal injuries in a motor cycle. ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—Twenty minutes before the end of the third day's play in the fifth Test, match between Australia and the West Indies team at the Sydney ...
Article : 556 wordsKALGOORLIE, March 2.—Thomas Kent Holloway (44), of Egan-street, Kalgoorlie, died in the Kalgoorlie Government Hospital about 11 p.m. yesterday as the ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, March 1.—In order to prevent seasickness three gyroscopic stabilisers, costing £200.000, have been added to the ocean liner Conti di Savoia which the ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY, March 2.—Two fatalities were caused by motor vehicles in Sydney this morning. At Haberfield, a motor 'bus, when swerving to avoid another vehicle, ...
Article : 133 wordsLate on Sunday night, as the result of an argument among three members of the crew of the Swedish steamer Anten, lying at North Wharf, Fremantle, knives were ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Acting Coroner (Mr. J. J. Lloyd. J.P.) conducted an inquest yesterday on the death at the Perth Hospital, on February 5. of Allan John Sandeman (21) ...
Article : 221 wordsLONDON, March 2.—The film world is busy assessing the possibilities of the new "Charlie" Chaplin film. The "Daily Telegraph" estimates that the comedian ...
Article : 107 wordsRichardson Brothers' grocery shop in Suburban-road, South Perth, was visited by thieves on Sunday night. Groceries and tobacco worth £3 were taken. ...
Article : 43 wordsPlainclothes Constable Hames yesterday arrested James William Meredith (21), labourer, of Newcastle-street, on a charge of having obtained £6/10/ from the Child ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, March 2.—The motorless aeroplane training school at Rossitten (East Prussia) has tamed a number of falcons, in order to control their flight within range ...
Article : 74 wordsThe present situation in Australia was seriously reviewed at a special meeting of the State executive of the Women's Service Guilds of W A. at headquarters on ...
Article : 256 wordsPARIS, March 1.—The European Wheat Conference ended with several agreements in principle for international co-operation in the sale of grain. The French Foreign ...
Article : 55 wordsMELBOURNE, March 2.—The bodies of Mrs. S. King and her three youngest children—a daughter and two sons, aged 12 years three years and six months, ...
Article : 59 wordsCONSTANTINOPLE, March 1.—The residence of M. Trotsky (the former Soviet leader, who was exiled from Russia), at Prinkipo Island, in the Sea of Marmora ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The late Sir George Vernon Wills, director of the Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd., left estate to the value of £2,100,000 the death duties ...
Article : 41 wordsADELAIDE, Mar. 2.—The Comptroller of Accounts in the Railway Department (Mr. H. L. Goldbeck), told the Industrial Court to-day that drastic ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Forcheim Tobacco Research Institute, in Baden (Germany), claims to be able to produce tobacco almost free of nicotine. On the strength of 4,000 ...
Article : 83 wordsADELAIDE, March 2.—An echo of the case in which Albert A. Edwards, a member of the State Parliament, was sentenced recently to five years imprisonment on ...
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